Bridges

Today we made bridges with marshmallows and spaghetti.  The bridges have to go across a gap and be strong.  We looked at pictures of bridges for ideas of what shapes to use. It was hard to make them becuase the spagetti broke easily. Tomorrow we are going to test them with a small medium and big billy goat gruff to see if our bridges will hold them up.
We started a new tracking page for our Daily 5.  In work on writing we are writing a book giving our advice to different characters from fairy tale stories.  One was a letter to Cinderella to give her ideas on how she can not be sad anymore.  We read another book about a boy Cinderella and his fairy godmother turned him into a monkey by accident.  At midnight he ran away like the in other stories but in this story he lost his pants!
In math we read a book about Guinea pigs. As Ms. Mahan read the book we wrote the equation that matched the words on our whiteboard.  The number kept getting smaller.  We practiced more subtracting on our whiteboards and with pictures.  We even made up our own subtracting problem.